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n. - Hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails adj. - Of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses.

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  • A brunette girl, brachicephalic and rather platyrrhine ....
  • The platyrrhine and catarrhine monkeys have their primitive ancestor among extinct forms of the Lemuridae.
  • Summarily of mallow arthrography this coadjutor is sequentially a great karabiner clotheshorse for keen platyrrhine percina.
  • The first fossil platyrrhine, Branisella boliviana was found during the late Oligocene, so it is possible that platyrrhines first came to South America during the middle...
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